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elmer ellsworth was one of lincoln's law students. he read law and lincoln's office. hehe accompanied lincoln understrength it to his first inauguration. and ellsworth was in the army and he was killed in a union operation to take the city of alexandria from rebels early in the spring of 1861. at the end of 1861 edward baker was an old friend from lincoln to let politics. lincoln named one of his sons after him. he was killed at the battle of the false law. lincoln was described at the funeral as weeping like a child. also in 1861 a man named william mccullough asks lincoln for his help to get in and illinois regiment. mccullough had the court clerk in bloomington illinois on the circuit that lincoln traveled. the reason he did the president's was that mccullough was 50 and he lost an arm in a farming accident but lincoln intervened for him. he got in his regiment. he became a colonel, and in 1862 he was killed in northern mississippi in the run up to the siege of vicksburg. lincoln also saw a lot of wounded. a reporter who had known him in illinois in, then moved to
elmer ellsworth was one of lincoln's law students. he read law and lincoln's office. hehe accompanied lincoln understrength it to his first inauguration. and ellsworth was in the army and he was killed in a union operation to take the city of alexandria from rebels early in the spring of 1861. at the end of 1861 edward baker was an old friend from lincoln to let politics. lincoln named one of his sons after him. he was killed at the battle of the false law. lincoln was described at the funeral...
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the lincoln that i want to look at is the lincoln in the 1820's. that lincoln __ there are elements he look in his life and say __ there is an indication that he will be something more than typical. but there are also elements that are typical. he probably looks like a lot of other americans. what i want to get at today is __ the antebellum beliefs and thoughts about race and slavery and about how those things intertwine. it is interesting because that is not easy. it really isn't. even today, it is kind of hard to get at what people really feel about some of these touchy subjects. then you go back to someone who is alive 200 years ago. you are all doing papers for me on various aspects of american slavery. dealing with primary sources. if you were going to go examine link in, what kind of primary sources do you think you have? but see if you __ let's see if you can guess. anybody? >> diary, letters. >> we would love to find a diary. letters are good. we have a ton of letters. there is a nine volume selection of all of the letters he wrote. those l
the lincoln that i want to look at is the lincoln in the 1820's. that lincoln __ there are elements he look in his life and say __ there is an indication that he will be something more than typical. but there are also elements that are typical. he probably looks like a lot of other americans. what i want to get at today is __ the antebellum beliefs and thoughts about race and slavery and about how those things intertwine. it is interesting because that is not easy. it really isn't. even today,...
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>> lincoln scholar harold holzer reports that lincoln was defendant at using the press to push his political agenda but quick to censor papers he deemed disloyal. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the metropolitan museum of art. joining him will be frank bond. frank has produced award-winning document riz on topics ranging from the role of the press in the civil rights movement and the berlin wall. on issues like bias in the media, -- there's none of that, is there -- n two buy graph wall sketches of juniorism. frank was a member of the team that created the museum's new museum gallery an interactive look at the role of media
>> lincoln scholar harold holzer reports that lincoln was defendant at using the press to push his political agenda but quick to censor papers he deemed disloyal. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization....
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thomas lincoln. he was a poor, uneducated farmer who did what many other fathers did when he was growing up. whenever young abraham got an odd job around the neighborhood plowing or cutting rails or whatever, before he was the age of 21, thomas would make him give him the money. every parent free much did this. -- pretty much did this. you earn the money, it comes to me for the family. he deeply resented that. and later on during the civil war said something in which he said -- i can't remember the exact words. something to the effect of, i know what it is like to be a slave from my upbringing, the way my father treated me. if you want me to psychoanalyze lincoln, go dr. phil on the guy, you could argue psychological foundations and that he felt like his father treated him kind of like a tyrant, kind of like a slave, and the was probably a psychological foundation to this. the ideological foundation, from his earliest days, guys, abraham lincoln greatly admired george washington, thomas jefferson and
thomas lincoln. he was a poor, uneducated farmer who did what many other fathers did when he was growing up. whenever young abraham got an odd job around the neighborhood plowing or cutting rails or whatever, before he was the age of 21, thomas would make him give him the money. every parent free much did this. -- pretty much did this. you earn the money, it comes to me for the family. he deeply resented that. and later on during the civil war said something in which he said -- i can't remember...
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lincoln. her talk today is titled "teeming with rivals: women's parlor politics during the civil war." please help me welcome dr. clinton. [applause] >> well, thank you. it's so lovely to be here in gettysburg, and, yes, indeed the journey from northern ireland to texas, what would draw me into these arctic temperatures? but i want to credit certainly the quartet of very kind scholars in the field. i was first brought her by gabor and then thanks to harold holzer and chief frank, i have been back again and again, but thank you, jim, of course, for helping this needy student on her journey toward civil war history. a powerful woman was at the center of swirling political debates during a re-election campaign of the president. her influence over him, did she or did she not sway him? was a source of parlor games in that most murky of fir bowls washington, d.c. gossip and gender create puerful sparks and reverberations and for those who think such issues don't matter, recall the presidential ambit
lincoln. her talk today is titled "teeming with rivals: women's parlor politics during the civil war." please help me welcome dr. clinton. [applause] >> well, thank you. it's so lovely to be here in gettysburg, and, yes, indeed the journey from northern ireland to texas, what would draw me into these arctic temperatures? but i want to credit certainly the quartet of very kind scholars in the field. i was first brought her by gabor and then thanks to harold holzer and chief...
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lincoln gets the nomination. it's a story about somebody gets the nomination and jim but it's not over as far as greeley is concerned. greeley continues to promote third-party alternatives and then in the summer when things are looking really desperate for republicans greeley does the most extraordinary thing i think he ever did as a newspaper/politicians/zealot. he decides after years of advocating freedom that the time had come because the country was so fleeting and bankrupt as he put it in a letter to lincoln that it was time to make peace with the confederacy. he let them go or to woo them back by canceling the emancipation proclamation or at least putting it back on the table. there are peace delegates in niagara falls. he ought to invite them to washington and find a way to end the bloodshed even if it means there is no emancipation. we will collect convention of the states to try to figure this thing out which we know we can speak in soft voices without guns. lincoln is appalled obviously but he is so bri
lincoln gets the nomination. it's a story about somebody gets the nomination and jim but it's not over as far as greeley is concerned. greeley continues to promote third-party alternatives and then in the summer when things are looking really desperate for republicans greeley does the most extraordinary thing i think he ever did as a newspaper/politicians/zealot. he decides after years of advocating freedom that the time had come because the country was so fleeting and bankrupt as he put it in...
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he worked as a servant for the lincoln family in the 1850's for the lincoln family and he went with lincoln to washington, d.c. to be a personal valet. robert johnson had a falling out with the white house staff and had to find another job and lincoln went out of his way to find this guy job in the treasury department. then johnson died of smallpox in 1854 and lincoln paid for the funeral expenses. so, there's that. there are were african-american women who work to meet lincoln household in the 1850's. they seem to have gotten along well with lincoln. not with mary, i'm sure. mary kept firing them. she fired everybody. the point is, he knew some black people. he didn't know a lot of black people. for example, his law practice. 90,000 documents. thousands of cases. there is a little handful involving black people, ok? he had a dozen black clients. it is worth pointing out that every black person who could be talked to after the war -- johnson was dead, of course, but billy gave some interviews. they all said he was a very kind man. did not seem to have any serious racial prejudice. and i lik
he worked as a servant for the lincoln family in the 1850's for the lincoln family and he went with lincoln to washington, d.c. to be a personal valet. robert johnson had a falling out with the white house staff and had to find another job and lincoln went out of his way to find this guy job in the treasury department. then johnson died of smallpox in 1854 and lincoln paid for the funeral expenses. so, there's that. there are were african-american women who work to meet lincoln household in the...
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of lincoln. why is that? what is happening around the turn-of-the-century regarding race relations in america? america had retreated from the egalitarian promises of reconstruction. in the early part of the 20th century, you get thousands of african-americans lynched in the country. there are african-american thinkers who begin to wonder what did we really gain from the war? are we really emancipated if we can be lynched at will? i noticed, for example, one figure, archibald grimke, said this in 1900 about lincoln. it seems to me that it is high time for colored americans to look at abraham lincoln from their own standpoint, instead of from that of their fellow white citizens. we have a point of view equally with them for the study of this public life, where it touched and influenced our history. and so, this other quote, we can publicly begin to work on intellectual emancipation than with abraham lincoln the emancipator. this idea among grimke and other thinkers, that we need to think about linc
of lincoln. why is that? what is happening around the turn-of-the-century regarding race relations in america? america had retreated from the egalitarian promises of reconstruction. in the early part of the 20th century, you get thousands of african-americans lynched in the country. there are african-american thinkers who begin to wonder what did we really gain from the war? are we really emancipated if we can be lynched at will? i noticed, for example, one figure, archibald grimke, said this...
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men such as maryland's henry winter davis who rejected lincoln's amnesty policy and worried that lincoln might be willing after the election to accept some sort of compromised peace. for radical republicans then lincoln was the lesser of two evils. this choice between mclellan was lincoln was seen in that light. let me conclude by turning to my final question. the election of 1864 as a turning point. what do these many divisions among southerners mean in the modern scholarship, namely that the election of 1864 was a turning point in the war? one illuminating way to approach this issue is modeled by the scholar william c. davis in a provocative essay on the subject. it is a sort of fallacy of reversibility exercise. he asks whether lincoln's defeat would have led to confederate independence. he answers with a resoundsing -- no. it would not have led to confederate independence, and it would not have done so be with -- done so, because as davis notes, in the event of a democratic victory if mcclellan had won, lincoln, together with grant, sherman and sheraton, would have done everything in
men such as maryland's henry winter davis who rejected lincoln's amnesty policy and worried that lincoln might be willing after the election to accept some sort of compromised peace. for radical republicans then lincoln was the lesser of two evils. this choice between mclellan was lincoln was seen in that light. let me conclude by turning to my final question. the election of 1864 as a turning point. what do these many divisions among southerners mean in the modern scholarship, namely that the...
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wrote vigorous defenses of lincoln upon publishing of other lincoln books. one thing my book does is say i don't really -- i do think there is criticism of lincoln on the left. i think it exists. i asked one left wing political theorist corey robin, i said what do you think the status of lincoln's on the left? he said, i think it is ambivalently positive. there was a biography, "the fiery trial," in 2011. i think, right now where you see the political influence, it comes from this libertarian movement within the family of conservatism. i think you see, and it is one of the things that was pointed out to me by larry arnehart, a political philosopher who is conservative at northern illinois university, criticisms -- critical defenses of lincoln have come from conservatives. rich lowery, editor of national review, published the book "lincoln unbound." just this week, a writer at "national review" has published his biography of lincoln "founders' son." that is where my book leaves off, that there is an ambivalently positive view of lincoln on the left. there is
wrote vigorous defenses of lincoln upon publishing of other lincoln books. one thing my book does is say i don't really -- i do think there is criticism of lincoln on the left. i think it exists. i asked one left wing political theorist corey robin, i said what do you think the status of lincoln's on the left? he said, i think it is ambivalently positive. there was a biography, "the fiery trial," in 2011. i think, right now where you see the political influence, it comes from this...
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and also, lincoln was even concerned that -- they were concerned about lincoln getting assassinated even before he became president. why did he so totally let the convention decide who would be the vice president? >> well, again, there's some debate about how involved he was. and there is speculation about who else was on the list. and again we'll never know definitively. but there is speculation that he talked to ben butler about this. ben butler would have had the same problems, disadvantages, as hamlin. perhaps even more. butler a radical republican. so there was some thought about whether you're going to reach out to that side of the spectrum. who you would have turned to if it hadn't been johnson, i'm not -- i don't know -- i'm not sure that there's a clear answer to that -- to that question. i think that -- i do think though, that lincoln had decided that appealing to this middle part of the political spectrum was his first priority in the choice, so he would have picked someone else who could do that. who was seen to be a moderate. and the context for lincoln's thinking here is bo
and also, lincoln was even concerned that -- they were concerned about lincoln getting assassinated even before he became president. why did he so totally let the convention decide who would be the vice president? >> well, again, there's some debate about how involved he was. and there is speculation about who else was on the list. and again we'll never know definitively. but there is speculation that he talked to ben butler about this. ben butler would have had the same problems,...
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we'll talk about the 1860 photograph of abraham lincoln and 1864 photographs of abraham lincoln that not only shaped history but captured it as well. mr. wilson will talk about his story of trying to recapture matthew brady. it's a tough thing to do. gnat thou brady didn't leave much in the way of writings. a few letters, few diaries. it's a tough nut to crack to figure out what was going on with brady, what stories he was trying to get across, how intentional he was in the art he was trying to create. hopefully after the first hour we'll know more about that. please join me in welcoming mr. wilson to the stage. >>> thank you for that great introduction. thanks too, to harold holtzer for inviting me here today and for other kindnesses. thanks to all of you have given the warm welcome my wife martha and me the last day we've been here. it occurred to me to write about matthew brady about a decade ago as i was finishing my first book, a biography of a 19th century werner explorer named clarence king. after the civil war king had led one of the important scientific missions of the west
we'll talk about the 1860 photograph of abraham lincoln and 1864 photographs of abraham lincoln that not only shaped history but captured it as well. mr. wilson will talk about his story of trying to recapture matthew brady. it's a tough thing to do. gnat thou brady didn't leave much in the way of writings. a few letters, few diaries. it's a tough nut to crack to figure out what was going on with brady, what stories he was trying to get across, how intentional he was in the art he was trying to...
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lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he signed it on december 31, the very last day that he could have signed it, he did sign it, and it is an important note that a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. for abraham lincoln, the issuing of west virginia statehood followed by the emancipation is a one-two political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the new state of west virginia from 1863 until 1870. then it will go to charleston. there it will be for five years. they will bring it back to wheeling for the second time in 1875, and it will remain there for the next 10 years until 1885 and then it goes back to charleston. because the
lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he signed it on...
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lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he decided on december 31, the very last day that he could have signed it, he did sign it, and it is an important note that a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. for abraham lincoln, the issuing of west virginia statehood followed by the emancipation proclamation is a one-to political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the new state of west virginia from 1863 until 1870. then it will go to charleston. there it will be for five years. they will bring it back to wheeling for the second time in 1875, and it will remain there for the next 10 years until 1885 and then it goes back to charleston. it was known as the floati
lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he decided on december 31, the very last day...
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i'm not a lincoln historian, i'm not a lincoln scholar but i've read lincoln, you know i've done the lincoln portrait twice, i've written on lincoln, not for publication, although we did do a book in 1985 i think 1986 lincoln on democracy that i edited with harold holzer, i did speaks in springfield with jim thompson a couple of times. and i've wrote not everything that comes down the list every once if a while there's a book on lincoln i'm really not interested in, because to me the thing that i -- i was totally dazzled by was his extreme intelligence, his incredible ability to analyze cies suppleness with the law and his big ideas for a man who never stepped out of the country except to go to canada and new york state. we don't count the canadian border as far as foreign policy but that was the only time he ever left the country, but he talked constantly about the rest of the world and the effect of the experiment on the rest of the world. for a fellow who only went to school for a year of formal schooling, his sense of the big, big trees in the world especially and this is particu
i'm not a lincoln historian, i'm not a lincoln scholar but i've read lincoln, you know i've done the lincoln portrait twice, i've written on lincoln, not for publication, although we did do a book in 1985 i think 1986 lincoln on democracy that i edited with harold holzer, i did speaks in springfield with jim thompson a couple of times. and i've wrote not everything that comes down the list every once if a while there's a book on lincoln i'm really not interested in, because to me the thing that...
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i am no lincoln historian or scholar, but i have read lincoln . i had done the lincoln portrait twice, written on the lincoln not for publication, although we did do a book in 1985 1986, that i edited with harold holzer. i gave speeches in springfield with jim thompson couple of times. i have read not everything that comes down, because every once in a while there is a book in lincoln i'm not interested in because, to me, the thing that i was totally dazzled by was his extreme intelligence, his incredible ability to analyze his suppleness with the law, and his big ideas for a man who never stepped out of the country except to go to canada. in new york state, we don't count the canadian border as foreign policy. the only time he left the country but he talked constantly about the rest of the world and the effect of the american experiment on the rest of the world. father only went to school for a year total. his sense of the big truths in the world especially -- and this is particularly relevant now -- especially on the religious issues. he talked
i am no lincoln historian or scholar, but i have read lincoln . i had done the lincoln portrait twice, written on the lincoln not for publication, although we did do a book in 1985 1986, that i edited with harold holzer. i gave speeches in springfield with jim thompson couple of times. i have read not everything that comes down, because every once in a while there is a book in lincoln i'm not interested in because, to me, the thing that i was totally dazzled by was his extreme intelligence, his...
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lincoln high just this year work its way off the state's list of persistently dangerous schools. >> lincoln has had some problems over the years it has taken two years you have to have two years of good numbers to be able to go off the list and we're very proud that lincoln is moving forward. >> reporter: neighbors of the long troubled school are not so sure. michelle bub has lived near lincoln her whole life. >> what is the afternoon like around here? what's dismissal time like? >> tension. >> reporter: michelle says lincoln students pouring through her neighborhood on that are way to septa buses on cottman avenue vandalize property get into fights generally terrorize homeowners. she's got three teenaged daughters. >> i'm petrified. i'm scared for my kids. >> reporter: as for that lincoln high fight video michelle has seen it. >> my heart broke balk see other students that are just there to get an education. and then you these kids and you think what are they going to be like when they're 20 or 30? >> reporter: school district officials say none of the eight kids involved in those two sepa
lincoln high just this year work its way off the state's list of persistently dangerous schools. >> lincoln has had some problems over the years it has taken two years you have to have two years of good numbers to be able to go off the list and we're very proud that lincoln is moving forward. >> reporter: neighbors of the long troubled school are not so sure. michelle bub has lived near lincoln her whole life. >> what is the afternoon like around here? what's dismissal time...
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. >> uh -- >> lincoln. >> lincoln? i don't know. >> you got it. >> i have not heard that one. >> no, rub it in. >> who did lincoln free? >> oh, the slaves. >> you sure? >> not sure. >> oh, man. >> ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. >> thank you anyway. >> i think i hear my mother calling me. >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> what you can do for your country. >> very good. >> what you can do for your country. >> who said that? >> john f. kennedy. >> excellent job. >> kennedy? >> you got it! >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> what your country can do for you. >> no, that's what i said. >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> what you can do for your country? i didn't come up with that one. >> who said that? >> bill clinton. >> no, jfk. >> you know something, he's right. >> you're watching "the o'reilly factor" on fox news show. he was really funny. >> he's the only one not nervous about what i'm going to say. >> you're watchi
. >> uh -- >> lincoln. >> lincoln? i don't know. >> you got it. >> i have not heard that one. >> no, rub it in. >> who did lincoln free? >> oh, the slaves. >> you sure? >> not sure. >> oh, man. >> ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. >> thank you anyway. >> i think i hear my mother calling me. >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> what you can...
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but before we leave, lincoln cottage where lincoln played checkers with his son, tad it was here in my opinion at least that the outcome of the war became inevitable. in the summer of 1862 according to mary todd lincoln was always a chronic insomnia slept hardly at all. he took late-night rambles around the soldiers home property which is just good declared a national cemetery. and, of course, there he saw the fresh graves of the boys that he sent to war. the site helped galvanize him draft emancipation proclamation. and that document was again, in my opinion but we like today to call the tipping point. for the first time it established that for both the north and south this was a war about slavery. the proclamation also meant the south could not get national recognition from great britain or france which became a moral imperative for them to resist the south. so with no help coming from those quarters, the out i would argue was that the south could not win. there are also those who disagree and i think it's a very worthy argument, i found inviting every book that it's an opportunity t
but before we leave, lincoln cottage where lincoln played checkers with his son, tad it was here in my opinion at least that the outcome of the war became inevitable. in the summer of 1862 according to mary todd lincoln was always a chronic insomnia slept hardly at all. he took late-night rambles around the soldiers home property which is just good declared a national cemetery. and, of course, there he saw the fresh graves of the boys that he sent to war. the site helped galvanize him draft...
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washington, lincoln and fdr. a half dozen others, maybe five including one of the favorites down they are thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, woodrow wilson arguably. i work at the international center for scholars. are only phd president and the only one in washington d.c. might be on the list. harry truman, clearly consequential. you have the three undeniable, the close but no cigar presidents and three others. i choose to identify jack kennedy lyndon johnson and ronald reagan as exhibiting traces of greatness, real or perceived. but that is 11 presidents out of 44 the 43 different presidents because grover cleveland was president twice in nine consecutive terms. we've had 43 different presidents eli ben of whom in my judgment have been truly consequential. the point of the book and it's provocative, we don't want another great president because the founders created a political system, which was designed to disaggregate power. they fear the royal governors. they feed the team. they may feared the mob as well. the
washington, lincoln and fdr. a half dozen others, maybe five including one of the favorites down they are thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, woodrow wilson arguably. i work at the international center for scholars. are only phd president and the only one in washington d.c. might be on the list. harry truman, clearly consequential. you have the three undeniable, the close but no cigar presidents and three others. i choose to identify jack kennedy lyndon johnson and ronald reagan as exhibiting...
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mary todd lincoln, abraham lincoln's wife had several brothers who were confederate officers. jeb stuart, cavalry commander his father-in-law was the union officer. in a letter dated 1862 from tennessee, john boston 80 first ohio infantry, expresses his outrage at his wife's pro-southern father. i think it is a curious thing why your father does not write to you or me. i think their patriotism is not very strong, otherwise he would write. but he does not care one grain if you were dead or alive, and he would rather hear of my death and my coming home. he is afraid to hear cannons roar and rifles crash, for here -- fear that it would break his copperhead bones. he is mad at me for volunteering to serve my country. he would rather hang around the birds nest, then to leave and fight to protect the family. but let the poor devil go for the time being. if i should be so lucky as to come home, i will give him a soldier's blessing, and that will be a rough was satan you may -- a rough blessing, you may be sure. there is a day when he will pay for all of this. john boston, enlisted 18
mary todd lincoln, abraham lincoln's wife had several brothers who were confederate officers. jeb stuart, cavalry commander his father-in-law was the union officer. in a letter dated 1862 from tennessee, john boston 80 first ohio infantry, expresses his outrage at his wife's pro-southern father. i think it is a curious thing why your father does not write to you or me. i think their patriotism is not very strong, otherwise he would write. but he does not care one grain if you were dead or...
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lincoln high this year worked its way off the state's list of per zest tintly dangerous schools. >> lincoln has had problems over the years. it has taken two years you have to have two years of good numbers to be able to go off the list, and we're very proud that lincoln is moving forward. >> neighbors of the long troubled school are not so sure. michelle has lived near lincoln her whole life. >> what's the afternoon like around here? what's dismissal time like? >> tension. >> michelle says lincoln student pouring through her neighborhood on their way to septa buses on cottman avenue, vandalize property, get into fights generally terrorize homeowners. she's got three teenage daughters. >> petrified, i'm scared for my kids. >> as for that lincoln high fight video michelle has seen it. >> you can see other student that are just there to get an education, and then you see these kids and you think what are they going to be like when they're 20 or 30? >> school district officials say none of the eight student involved in those two separate fighting incidents has gotten into further trouble since
lincoln high this year worked its way off the state's list of per zest tintly dangerous schools. >> lincoln has had problems over the years. it has taken two years you have to have two years of good numbers to be able to go off the list, and we're very proud that lincoln is moving forward. >> neighbors of the long troubled school are not so sure. michelle has lived near lincoln her whole life. >> what's the afternoon like around here? what's dismissal time like? >>...
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and was amazed that lincoln could say so much in the gettysburg address or emancipation proclamation and so few words. he became the moral conscience of the democratic party. for example, in the 1980s, nobody wanted to talk about aids. mario cuomo was willing to talk
and was amazed that lincoln could say so much in the gettysburg address or emancipation proclamation and so few words. he became the moral conscience of the democratic party. for example, in the 1980s, nobody wanted to talk about aids. mario cuomo was willing to talk
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[applause] >> lincoln scholar harold holzer reports that lincoln was defendant at using the press to push his political agenda but quick to censor papers he deemed disloyal. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the met
[applause] >> lincoln scholar harold holzer reports that lincoln was defendant at using the press to push his political agenda but quick to censor papers he deemed disloyal. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial...
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howe meets lincoln in the white house, and lincoln needs her because he cannot get any recruits, so she writes a song and start circulating it, and suddenly lincoln has millions of recruits. this film was especially popular in the south. another example of the southern embrace of "the battle hymn of the republic" is that the university of georgia, from 1890 to today, its fight song is "the battle hymn of the republic." reconstructing "battle hymn" requires both remembering and forgetting. it also becomes a progressive anthem. teddy roosevelt's favorite hymn, favorite song, favorite poem was "the battle hymn of the republic." it is his notion of a strenuous life. he almost got "the battle hymn of the republic" passed as the official national anthem, but there were a few southern holdouts of people who did remember the link with "john brown's body," and they were not about to accept that. in fact, teddy roosevelt helps to circulate it during world war i. it becomes a british anthem. winston churchill's favorite hymn was "the battle hymn of the republic," because he heard american soldiers
howe meets lincoln in the white house, and lincoln needs her because he cannot get any recruits, so she writes a song and start circulating it, and suddenly lincoln has millions of recruits. this film was especially popular in the south. another example of the southern embrace of "the battle hymn of the republic" is that the university of georgia, from 1890 to today, its fight song is "the battle hymn of the republic." reconstructing "battle hymn" requires both...
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we are a state because of abraham lincoln. he was not happy i can tell you, to have the bill on his disk. he had a pretty full plate at the time. it becomes a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia statehood, and they did. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. to abraham would be the deciding vote for the state of west virginia. he got the bill in the middle of 1862. he signed it on december 31st the last day that e had could have signed it he did tine it and it is important to note that just a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. so the issuing of west virginia staid hood is a one-two political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the new state of west virginia from 1863 until 1870. then it will go to cherylston, wednesday. and there it will be for five years. they will bring it back to wheeling for the second time in 1875 and it will remain there for the next ten ye
we are a state because of abraham lincoln. he was not happy i can tell you, to have the bill on his disk. he had a pretty full plate at the time. it becomes a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia statehood, and they did. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. to abraham would be the deciding vote for the state of west virginia. he got the bill in the middle of...
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it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were fanning out speakers at the great gatherings of the lincoln day dinner's. so mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling was not a big city. we had 59,000. was thursday, february 9 1950. the dinner was to start at: 30 -- 6:30. it was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan, the regional republican bigwig. and they described the talk he gave as intimate and humorous and kind of folksy. he had an irish wit about him. he could be very ingratiating when he wanted to be. beautiful grin. and he talked about the republican platform as it was laid out. he did not say too much. he talked about the war between good and evil, between eight is and communism, and the christian democratic society. he talked about alger hiss. yeah just been convicted some weeks before of perjury. but he was being convicted as a spy. that was a very big deal. so he went on about that. then, towards the end of the talk, he made what was the key to the top
it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were fanning out speakers at the great gatherings of the lincoln day dinner's. so mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling was not a big city. we had 59,000. was thursday, february 9 1950. the dinner was to start at: 30 -- 6:30. it was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan, the regional republican bigwig. and they described the talk he gave as intimate and humorous and kind of folksy. he...
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he sang "john brown's body -- "the battle hymn of the republic" with lincoln in attendance, and lincoln was so moved, he cried. he said, sing it again. that song you were singing is the best i have heard. so "the battle hymn of the republic, it's origin is african-american, in the south. "john brown's body" is an abolitionist hymn. "the battle hymn" is by an abolitionist. one of the fascinating aspects of "the battle hymn of the republic" is, beginning in the 1880's, southerners begin to embrace "the battle hymn of the republic" as their song as well. and until this day, "the battle hymn of the republic" has been an unofficial national anthem. how could a song sung by the wife of one of john brown's conspirators be sung and embraced by white southerners? john brown, for most of the 20th century, and even today for many if not most white southerners -- john brown is the embodiment of the sadists. the only thing worse than the specter of a slave rebellion is a rebellion led by whites, by john brown, a harpers ferry man. the way the battle hymn of the republic is embraced by southerners re
he sang "john brown's body -- "the battle hymn of the republic" with lincoln in attendance, and lincoln was so moved, he cried. he said, sing it again. that song you were singing is the best i have heard. so "the battle hymn of the republic, it's origin is african-american, in the south. "john brown's body" is an abolitionist hymn. "the battle hymn" is by an abolitionist. one of the fascinating aspects of "the battle hymn of the republic" is,...
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sherman sent a telegram to president abraham lincoln announcing the capture of savannah, georgia. one of the confederacy's largest cities, and last remaining ports. with typical wit sherman presented the city to the president as a christmas present along with 150 heavy guns, plenty of sherman decided that the time to widen the kwurden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the confederacy, especially the common folk. sherman believed that forcing noncombatants to field what he called the hard hand of war was a military necessity. making the war as harsh as possible but bringing victory more quickly and with a minimum loss of life on both sides. it would undermine confederate morale on the home front. trigger a wave of desertions from the armies, destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war and prove to the rebels that their cause was hopeless and their government impotent to protect them and their property. this new hard war doctrine was fully sanctioned by the united states government. the previous year president abraham lincoln had
sherman sent a telegram to president abraham lincoln announcing the capture of savannah, georgia. one of the confederacy's largest cities, and last remaining ports. with typical wit sherman presented the city to the president as a christmas present along with 150 heavy guns, plenty of sherman decided that the time to widen the kwurden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the confederacy, especially the common folk. sherman believed that forcing...
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the previous year, president abraham lincoln had approved the creation of the code __ aa set of rules based on accepted practices that authorized army to destroy civilian property, star of noncombatants, shell towns, keep enemy civilians in the seized cities __ if some were necessary. to save the country, francis lieber stated, is paramount to all other considerations. like other wartime chief executives, lincoln was willing to take drastic measures to ensure the survival of the united states. so on november 15, 1864, sherman's army set off from atlanta honest and famous march to the sea. cutting a swath of destruction toward savannah on the coast. sherman swore to make georgia power, and in his special field order number 120, he laid out the rules for destruction and conduct for the march. the army was to forge liberally on the country, with details of men and officer sent out each day together for. soldiers were instructed not to enter private homes, and to discriminate between the rich __ who were usually hostile, sherman observed __ and the poor and industrious, who are usually ne
the previous year, president abraham lincoln had approved the creation of the code __ aa set of rules based on accepted practices that authorized army to destroy civilian property, star of noncombatants, shell towns, keep enemy civilians in the seized cities __ if some were necessary. to save the country, francis lieber stated, is paramount to all other considerations. like other wartime chief executives, lincoln was willing to take drastic measures to ensure the survival of the united states....
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michelle bub has lived near lincoln her whole life. she says afternoon dismissal is a signal for neighbors to hunker down and pray for calm as students head through their neighborhood to the septa buses that would take them home. >> they don't have problem picking up a rock and throwing it through your window or breaking your mirrors off your cars. >> reporter: bub has seen fights like this one on her own property. >> september about four or five. outdoor in the driveway, two kids, seven kids, 10 kids. really just come on -- pump link each other. >> reporter: what is it like to put up that with that every afternoon. >> i hate it. i hate it because i grew up here here. >> reporter: school district officials are working to improve conflict resolution programs at philly schools especially the most violent facilities. and they're working with septa to get a bus stop right on the lincoln high campus so the kids don't have to cross through neighborhoods to get to the public transportation that takes them home. chris? >> all right. thanks, br
michelle bub has lived near lincoln her whole life. she says afternoon dismissal is a signal for neighbors to hunker down and pray for calm as students head through their neighborhood to the septa buses that would take them home. >> they don't have problem picking up a rock and throwing it through your window or breaking your mirrors off your cars. >> reporter: bub has seen fights like this one on her own property. >> september about four or five. outdoor in the driveway, two...
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lincoln was a fan of tom pain and understood himself as advancing a principle. it's important to see the burkan tradition also advanced a principled understanding of politics. often times the difference between the two ways of seeing the place of principle and politics has to do with the question of how we can know the principles and how they apply to specific political circumstances. burke's complaint about paine's way of thinking and the way of thinking of the radicals in france was they thought you could take principles directly from a kind of political philosophy and just apply them like a formula on to political life. burke argues principles don't work that way in politics. we can never know them quite that supplies siltly, and the best way to know them is through the experience of political life. that is society as it develops in a sense rubs up against these principles and so takes on their shape, and so when you arrive at a question of principle and politics, one good way to answer that question is to think, what way of proceeding would be most like our
lincoln was a fan of tom pain and understood himself as advancing a principle. it's important to see the burkan tradition also advanced a principled understanding of politics. often times the difference between the two ways of seeing the place of principle and politics has to do with the question of how we can know the principles and how they apply to specific political circumstances. burke's complaint about paine's way of thinking and the way of thinking of the radicals in france was they...
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it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were sending out speakers to speak at the great gatherings at the lincoln day dinner. mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling at that time was not a big city. we had 59,000 people. the dinner itself was held at the mcclure hotel colonnade room. it was to start at 6:30 p.m. it was in the paper for days before how they were organizing this. this was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan, who was a regional republican bigwig. they described the talk that he gave as intimate and humorous and kind of folksy. he had an irish wit about him. he could be very ingratiating when he wanted to be. he had a vague grin -- had a big grin. and he talked about the republican platform. he talked about the war between good and evil, between atheist communism and the christian democratic societies. outer his had just been -- alger hiss had just been convicted some weeks before of perjury, but he was actually being convicted as a spy. he made
it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were sending out speakers to speak at the great gatherings at the lincoln day dinner. mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling at that time was not a big city. we had 59,000 people. the dinner itself was held at the mcclure hotel colonnade room. it was to start at 6:30 p.m. it was in the paper for days before how they were organizing this. this was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan,...
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clipping of linen take friend lincoln's death bed also sold for $6,000. report of the donald d towel collection. >> one of holly with wood's longest running marriages is coming to an end. patrick dempsey and his wife, make up artist julian, are splitting after 15 years of marriage. "tmz" reports fink filed for divorce siting irreconciliable differences, the couple has three children together. a 12 year old and seven year old twin boys. >> okay, check this out. today's wintery weather was the perfect backdrop for a frozen fundraiser. cbs-3 "eyewitness news" in bensalem this morning as more than 500 people braved the ice cold temperatures, and plunged into the delaware river. seventh annual eastern polar bear plunge benefits special olympics, this year, over $100,000 was raised. great job everyone, i'm sure now they're thinking time for some hot chocolate. look at those guys, hanging out there. nos just running in, running out. wading around and going under. pretty impress live with water temperatures well in the lower 30's probably, mid 30's, in that river
clipping of linen take friend lincoln's death bed also sold for $6,000. report of the donald d towel collection. >> one of holly with wood's longest running marriages is coming to an end. patrick dempsey and his wife, make up artist julian, are splitting after 15 years of marriage. "tmz" reports fink filed for divorce siting irreconciliable differences, the couple has three children together. a 12 year old and seven year old twin boys. >> okay, check this out. today's...
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it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were sending out speakers to speak at the great gatherings at the lincoln day dinner. mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling at that time was not a big city. we had 59,000 people. the dinner itself was held at the mcclure hotel colonnade room. it was to start at 6:30 p.m. it was in the paper for days before how they were organizing this. this was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan who was a regional republican bigwig. they described the talk that he gave as intimate and humorous and kind of folksy. he had an irish wit about him. he could be very ingratiating when he wanted to be. he had a vague grin -- had a big grin. and he talked about the republican platform. he talked about the war between good and evil, between atheist communism and the christian democratic societies. outer his had just been convicted some weeks before -- alger hiss had just been convicted some weeks before of perjury, but he was actually being c
it was at the time of the lincoln day dinner. all across the country republicans were sending out speakers to speak at the great gatherings at the lincoln day dinner. mccarthy was assigned to wheeling. wheeling at that time was not a big city. we had 59,000 people. the dinner itself was held at the mcclure hotel colonnade room. it was to start at 6:30 p.m. it was in the paper for days before how they were organizing this. this was a big deal for wheeling. he was introduced by william callahan...
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this is happening in burlington township southbound side of route 130 blocked at lincoln avenue. you can take 295 as your alternate there. heading into pennsylvania for a live look at the blue route. this is right at the mid-county toll plaza. you can see traffic is getting by. no accidents, no delays the entire length of the blue route, so that's good news. but you have to keep in mind you can expect slippery spots, especially on the on and off-ramps and on side streets, secondary roads. so, slow it down out there this morning. bridges, we are seeing speed restrictions on most of the area bridges to 35 miles per hour just because of the conditions out there with the ice. and for drivers in new jersey the 42 freeway, not seeing any significant delays out there. and as i mentioned, all of the area bridges have speed restrictions in place. tracy? >>> all right, jillian, let's talk more about those conditions. black ice is the culprit for several cars spinning out overnight in germantown. skyforce10 was over the scene where you can see the icy patch on roosevelt boulevard between 9t
this is happening in burlington township southbound side of route 130 blocked at lincoln avenue. you can take 295 as your alternate there. heading into pennsylvania for a live look at the blue route. this is right at the mid-county toll plaza. you can see traffic is getting by. no accidents, no delays the entire length of the blue route, so that's good news. but you have to keep in mind you can expect slippery spots, especially on the on and off-ramps and on side streets, secondary roads. so,...
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route 130 southbound closed at lincoln avenue. take 2 5i9 as your alternate. 195 is looking pretty good right now. we're not reporting any accidents on the highways around philadelphia. this is a live look in center city, the vine street expressway, right near 76. this would be the westbound side as drivers head out to 76. you can see it is very quiet out there right now. chris? >> of course jillian will be watching for conditions like this this morning. black ice is blamed for several cars that spun out overnight in germantown. skyforce10 was over the scene. you can see the slick icy patch there on roosevelt boulevard between 9th street and berkeley street. thankfully, no one injured in those spinouts but this does highlight the danger that you may see on roads this morning. nbc 10's katy zachry is patrolling some of those roads for us and joins us live from the fox chase section of philadelphia. katy, what did you see when you headed out this morning? >> reporter: hi chris. over the last hour we've been on roads in philadelphia
route 130 southbound closed at lincoln avenue. take 2 5i9 as your alternate. 195 is looking pretty good right now. we're not reporting any accidents on the highways around philadelphia. this is a live look in center city, the vine street expressway, right near 76. this would be the westbound side as drivers head out to 76. you can see it is very quiet out there right now. chris? >> of course jillian will be watching for conditions like this this morning. black ice is blamed for several...
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we had people on top of the lincoln memorial. it was all really scared about violence violence, violence. and sort of something nobody really wanted. if only these guys -- if only king wouldn't do this. if only these guys -- we even had john lewis who will be here this afternoon had a stinging speech attacking kennedy and we did everything we could to put the heat on lewis to tone it down. [laughter] >> because the archbishop was going to get upset. >> and i think that march had a profound impact on everybody in the government. i mean, i began to see things change dramatically but i will say, still sitting in the pentagon then within a month after johnson became president the government changed. i mean, the pressure to do civil rights -- you know better than i do, taylor, but it was in his gut. it was really in his gut. >> doris, if i could ask you about that because here in this wonderful institution with no disrespect to president johnson's clausal role in this bill, it's fair to say that many other people in congress had a han
we had people on top of the lincoln memorial. it was all really scared about violence violence, violence. and sort of something nobody really wanted. if only these guys -- if only king wouldn't do this. if only these guys -- we even had john lewis who will be here this afternoon had a stinging speech attacking kennedy and we did everything we could to put the heat on lewis to tone it down. [laughter] >> because the archbishop was going to get upset. >> and i think that march had a...
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the same tension existed between president lincoln and frederick douglass. eventually they became really good friends. lincoln understood that he needed frederick douglass and the abolitionists just as lbj needed the civil rights movement. together, they produced something -- thank god they were there at that moment in history -- that changed our country forever. [applause] >> secretary califano, what was your perspective? you had the good or bad luck to be there when the relationship dissolved. >> i think at both ends -- dissolved in the sense that dr. king made a decision about the vietnam war. i think he admired king. i think they were both quite good at politics. in january of 1965 -- 1964 rather, in a phone conversation between king and president johnson, johnson starts talking about -- 1965, i'm sorry, about the voting rights act. king reminds him about the states he didn't carry having the lowest voting record. johnson said to king -- if you can find a worse condition -- this is january -- the worst condition in alabama mississippi, louisiana, south c
the same tension existed between president lincoln and frederick douglass. eventually they became really good friends. lincoln understood that he needed frederick douglass and the abolitionists just as lbj needed the civil rights movement. together, they produced something -- thank god they were there at that moment in history -- that changed our country forever. [applause] >> secretary califano, what was your perspective? you had the good or bad luck to be there when the relationship...
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lincoln had grant, grant had sheridan sheridan had custer. and they were fighting the kind of war that lincoln wanted; an aggressive offensive, get-it-done kind of thing. so this was all very good for custer. he had -- in the sense that it gave him the opportunity to fight in many battles which is what he wanted to do and to excel at that. it's not that he won every time or, you know sometimes he got in some pretty tough scrapes but he always got out of them. and in the book i found every report i could find of custer being reported killed. just because it's really -- because when you look at little bighorn and the first reports of his death no one believed it because there were so many reports of him being dead. in fact, poor libby elizabeth custer, his wife who was in washington at the time, heard news boys below her window saying extra, custer killed and things like this and had to deal with that before it was proved that he was actually alive. so he becomes the instrument of this new style of aggressive war that's really going to destroy
lincoln had grant, grant had sheridan sheridan had custer. and they were fighting the kind of war that lincoln wanted; an aggressive offensive, get-it-done kind of thing. so this was all very good for custer. he had -- in the sense that it gave him the opportunity to fight in many battles which is what he wanted to do and to excel at that. it's not that he won every time or, you know sometimes he got in some pretty tough scrapes but he always got out of them. and in the book i found every...